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Job 1:14,15

The first stroke, the loss of the oxen and she-asses, with the slaughter of the servants. Job's servants were probably armed, as is usual in the East, and offered resistance, for the Bedawin do not usually shed blood unless opposed. The Sabeans were an Arab tribe, or possibly different tribes bore the name (Genesis 10:7; Genesis 10:28; Genesis 25:3). In Job 6:19 they are represented as trading with caravans. They are mentioned in connexion with Dedan, and probably detachments of them encamped on the borders of Edom, and these would be the assailants of Job's servants. The raid came from the direction of the South, and the fact that the oxen were plowing indicates that the disaster befell in winter.

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